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About the Battery and The Battery Conservancy The Battery is a 25-acre waterfront park and the cradle of New York City history. Located at the tip of Manhattan overlooking New York Harbor, The Battery hosted Dutch settlers when they arrived at Manhattan Island in 1626 and established New Amsterdam. Today with the leadership of The […]
The Battery The Battery is one of New York City’s oldest public open spaces. Located at the tip of Manhattan overlooking New York Harbor, the Battery hosted Dutch settlers when they came to Manhattan Island and established New Amsterdam. Now the Battery is truly the cradle of New York history, the front lawn of the […]
The Nathaniel Russell Garden is one of over 100 gardens in Charleston, South Carolina which was designed by the New York landscape architect, Loutrel Briggs. Mr. Briggs began his designs in the 1920s, a period of restoration of Charleston’s historic architecture. Mr. Briggs saw the gardens as extensions of the homes. He had traveled extensively […]
Mrs. Whaley’s Garden Room, Courtesy Martha Whaley Mrs. Whaley’s Charleston garden measures 30 feet by 110 feet and stands behind an 18th century clapboard home. Charleston is known as “the City of Gardens” and William Baldwin said Mrs. Whaley’s garden is the most visited private garden in the United States. Mrs. Whaley said she never […]
The ginkgo tree, also known as the Maidenhair Tree and the Tree of Forty Crowns, emanates from China and later Japan. Its name means “silver apricot.” It is a living fossil from the Mesozoic era. There are both male and female species. The male tree is slim, columnar and is slightly large. The female tree […]
History of the Gardens After 16 years of planning, planting and building, we celebrated the Grand Opening of Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens on June 13, 2007. This magnificent and ambitious project began with a kernel of an idea generated by Rollins Hale of Boothbay Harbor. He and other mid-coast Maine residents who shared the belief […]
